On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 17:16, Jason Wessel <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think the patch is fine and I will accept it into the kgdb tree for
> pushing to Linus, but I did have a question.
>
> How did the kgdbts.o end up getting compiled on m68k if there is no kgdb
> support on m68k?

It didn't. I was just grepping for the problematic strstr() case.

> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> Some versions of gcc replace calls to strstr() with single-character
>> "needle" string parameters by calls to strchr() behind our back.
>> This causes linking errors if strchr() is defined as an inline function
>> in <asm/string.h> (e.g. on m68k, which BTW doesn't have kgdb support).
>>
>> Prevent this by explicitly calling strchr() instead.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> This is the single remaining case where strstr() is used with a
>> single-character needle.  Cfr.
>> commit 0d03d59d9b31cd1e33b7e46a80b6fef66244b1f2 ("md: Fix "strchr"
>> [drivers/md/dm-log-userspace.ko] undefined!")
>> commit d8b0fb51ef1563c631d26cb649a5479b5cc4899c ("[PATCH] libertas link error
>> due to gcc `smartness'")

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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